Sentences with phrase «military voters»

There are a handful of votes still to be counted from military voters, but they aren't expected to make a difference in the race's outcome.

The issue had been complicated by a federal law passed requiring ballots be sent to overseas and military voters at least 45 days in advance of the election day.

«Due to serious concerns over the rollout of new electronic voting machines in several counties within the district, the local financial burden of holding a special election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010.»

Another federal judge has set a congressional primary for June 26, noting state legislative inertia has meant New York would otherwise not comply with a federal law mandating military voters receive absentee ballots in time for the November general election.

The continuing political fight in late 2015 over control of the new Women's Equality Party is making voting complex for absentee voters this fall, statewide and among military voters overseas.

The department's lawsuit against the state and Gov. David Paterson, filed in federal district court yesterday, charged that nine of the 10 counties in New York's 20th congressional district had not given military voters enough time to fill out their ballots and return them before the deadline.

She feels especially bad for military voters overseas.

But the deadline to send out ballots to overseas and military voters came and went last Friday.

However, the Department of Defense granted a waiver to its requirement that military voters get at least 45 days to receive their absentee ballots.

Cuomo also notes a protracted fight could create chaos in a year in which a federal judge could move New York's primaries from September to as early as June to give military voters more time to submit absentee ballots.

But Tedisco said that because the tally so far doesn't include military voters, who tend to lean Republican, the remaining ballots will push him over the edge.

After state legislators failed for two years to comply with a federal law requiring that military voters stationed overseas get their ballots 45 days prior to the general election, a federal judge set the beginning of the congressional election calendar at March 20.

Absentee votes by these voters as well as military voters abroad must be postmarked by the day before the Nov. 3 election.

A federal judge ordered the new date, saying the usual September primary wouldn't allow enough time to get absentee ballots to military voters before the November election.

The West Virginia Secretary of State's office lists the challenge that overseas military voters face in casting their vote as the motivation behind this pilot:

In a statement this week, West Virginia's Secretary of State Mac Warner revealed that currently deployed, registered and qualified military voters from Harrison County and Monongalia County, as well as their spouses and dependents, are able to cast their votes in the upcoming May 8 election via a secure mobile application.

The Secretary of State of West Virginia has teamed up with Boston - based technology startup Voatz to provide an easier solution for out - of - state military voters.

According to a press release March 28, registered military voters can use a newly - developed Blockchain platform for mobile voting in the Primary Elections from March 23 until polling day May 8.

The new measure will more than double that timeframe to between 70 and 80 days and give county boards of elections adequate time prior to special elections for absentee ballots for military voters to be mailed and counted in compliance with federal law.

ALBANY - The continuing political fight over control of the new Women's Equality Party is making voting complex for absentee voters this fall, statewide and among military voters overseas.

Republican State Sen. Tom O'Mara, who sponsored the bill, said the later date will also give New York more time to comply with the MOVE Act, a federal law that requires states to send absentee ballots to military voters overseas no less than 45 days before an election.

«The military voters and all other voters in New York's 3rd Congressional deserve the same consideration, 50 days or more in the general election, as the judge provided for the primary voters,» Murray said.

Martins said the congressional race needed to be moved back if the primary was delayed to allow absentee ballots to get to military voters overseas and to allow him to fully campaign against the Democrat in the race, Thomas Suozzi of Glen Cove.

«We have always said this is about protecting the rights of the military voters and other absentee voters who deserve the same protection in a general election as in a primary,» said Martins» spokesman E. O'Brien Murray.

«The October primary election date leaves 32 days for a general election, disenfranchising the military voters and even potentially the permanent absentee voters,» said.

(CNN)- Assistance to military voters is the best it has ever been, the Pentagon said on Wednesday in rebutting criticism that it is not helping troops navigate the voting process.

These results do no include absentee ballots, which must be received by April 7 for domestic voters and by April 13 for overseas and military voters.

One of the issues with those, is that military voters were sent two separate ballots this year - one for local elections and one for federal elections.

When those counties approve a final, official ballot, those ballots will be mailed to the military voters who can vote again.

Under FAWBs, however, a military voter overseas can write in «Democratic,» «Republican» or other party to vote a straight party line.

Those military voters received Federal Absentee Write - in Ballots, or FAWBs.

«We have to mail out overseas ballots with just federal offices on them, then we have to send the second ballot to the military voters with every office on it.

These military voters are the focus of the new June primary date.

Absentee ballot systems previously offered to overseas military voters did not ensure anonymity, and many military voters were concerned their mail - in or faxed ballots may not be received in time, or may not be counted.